Comparing Regional
Cultures
Chapter 3 section 3
New England
 Cold
winters
 Short growing season
 Rugged landscape
 Most New Englanders worked small farms
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Grew wheat, rye, corn and potatoes
New Englanders exported lumber, and fish
(Cod)
Principle sea port was Boston
Middle Colonies
 Family
Farms (more prosperous than NE)
 Produced more and better wheat
 Philadelphia and NY became two great
seaports
The South
 Long
growing season, warmer climate
 Raised tobacco
 N.C. produced cattle and lumber
 S.C. and Georgia produced rice
 Charleston S.C. was the region’s largest
port
Is there a difference in culture
based on where you’re from
today?
Regional social patterns
 New
England and the middle colonies,
there were few African Americans
 South, they were the majority of the
population
 Most immigrants to the South were poor,
young, single men.
 Most immigrants to New England were
usually middle-class who immigrated as
families
Social patterns cont…
 European
immigrants seemed to favor the
middle colonies
 Middle colonies became very diverse
 NE was a healthier place, free of Malaria
and dysentery
 People in NE were expected to live about
70 years, it was also had the biggest
population
Women in the Colonies
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Few opportunities for women
Dependent on men
Men held all the power
Ran the household
Could not:
own property
Vote
Run for public office
Serve on a jury
Education
 More
available in NE
 Outside NE, some families taught their
children to read